World War II

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Gas Chamber

Cocentration Camp victims

Henrich Himmler

Anne Frank

Adolf Hitler

Auschwitz-Concentration Camp

• demilitarized-eliminate or prohibit weapons, fortifications, and other military installations
• appeasement- satisfying demands of diassatisfied powersin an effort to maintain peace and stability
• blitzkrieg- German for "Lighting War" a swift and sudden military attack; used bythe Germans during World War II
• partisans- a resistance fighter in World War II
• genocide- the deliberate mass muder of a particular racial, political or cultural group
• collaborators- a person who assists the enemy
• mobilization- the process of assembling troops and supplies ans making them ready for war
• kamikaze-Japanese for "divine war" a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S fighting ships at sea
• cold war - the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
• sanctions- a restriction intented to enforce international law

• Adolf Hitler- he believed that germans belonged to a so called Aryan race that was superior to all other races and nationalities
• Henrich Himmler- he was the man incharge, for Hitler, of the Concentration Camps or known as death camps
• Winston Churchill- he was a great Britains wartime leader, he advocated a hard-line policy towards Nazi Germany in the 1930's. On May 10, 1940 he became the British Prime mInister.
• Reinhard Heydrich- he was head of the SS Security Service and was given the task od administering the Final Solution
• Rudolf Hoss- he was the comanding officer at the Auschwitz death camp
• Paul Tibbets- he was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the American Airplane that carried the bomb, known as "littleBoy"
• Admiral Yamamoto- he was the known as the master mind of the surprize attack on the U.S Pacific fleet (Pearl Harbor) on Sunday December 7, 1941
• Anne Frank- Her and her family hid for two years in a family friends builing, they were hidden behind a book case for 2 years until they were later found and taken to concentration camps.Anne died of typhus, but her father survived and published her diary in 1947.
• Osker Schindler- he was a German industrialist that saved Jews working in factories.

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  Pearl Habor

  World War II Europe Map

  Winstion Churchill